Remember the images of the tsunami wall of water and debris that overtook the Japanese port city? We had an inch of rain in about 1 hour last Thursday night and 15 inches of snow that was melting at about 50F. The wall of water picked up the ice, smashed it, threw it down river on top of the other ice, this ice was about 8 inches thick, and it rolled down stream at around 5 miles an hour, rolling and curling and chopping up and throwing as it went, somebody got a video of it and it was fascinating to watch, kind of like a tornado, sad that some got flooded, well, not too sad as who would build by a river that does this every year, then ask for help to rebuild their $300,000 homes by the river. Nobody got hurt though and all are accounted for. But now, it looks like a alien war zone with ice chunks as big as cars littered about. Sorry, no video, but I think it was either the Grand River, Black River or the Vermillion River in Ohio.
Vermillion... those dodo's have to be brain dead living 7 feet above a river so they can have a dock.... well, the dock is now in the living room....
Chagrin hit flood stage maxed yesterday, it was impressive to see it flowing off rt 90, kinda like dirty gray lava....
The grand didn't look too bad when I saw it Friday, but I heard it jammed Out at the mouth and was piling up.
shoreline off Cleveland was open water, Fairport broke up yesterday I think.....
THIS WAS Friday MORN, in Fairport you can see the big ice ridge out about a mile... the rest inland was pretty thin inside the breakwall...yes. it is frozen there...
this was during the "heatwave"... were back to normal now, most of the snow melt is done, and we'll be getting it again this week...